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Waking up half-drowned on an abandoned beach with no memory of who he is, a man stumbles on a BMW and assumes the identity of the person whose papers and clothes he locates inside, soon finding himself targeted for the man's alleged activities.

The brilliants changed everything. Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person's most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the world has struggled with a growing divide between the exceptional...and the rest of us. Now a terrorist network led by brilliants has crippled three cities. Supermarket shelves stand empty. 911 calls go unanswered....

In Wyoming, a little girl reads people's darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They are called brilliants and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way. Nick Cooper is among them; a federal agent, Cooper has gifts rendering him exceptional at hunting terrorists. His latest...

Soon to be a major motion picture from Imagine Entertainment and producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.Between life and death lies an epic war, a relentless manhunt through two worldsand an unforgettable love story.The last thing FBI agent Will Brody remembers is the explosiona thousand shards of glass surfing a lethal shock wave.He wakes without a scratch.The building is in ruins. His team is gone. Outside, Chicago is dark. Cars lie abandoned. No...